. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the GooglePhotographer: Michael Buckner. Creative Direction: Sasha Purdy.always knew she wanted to be a mom. “I never questioned it,” she says. “I never was like, ‘Oh, do I want kids?’ I thought 24/7 about becoming a mom.
The couple decided to pause their journey until closer to the new year. After Christmas, they decided to start trying and had a failed embryo transfer. “That was the hardest part of everything, because we were thinking, ‘We’re going to have a daughter. We’re going to give birth in October.’ And then it didn’t work,” Farago says. But they didn’t have time to get discouraged. Immediately, Farago and Sullivan went into a second transfer.
But that wasn’t the only good news. Because of how dark the positive pregnancy line was, Farago and Sullivan had an immediate feeling they were pregnant with twins. Their suspicions were confirmed when they went in for their first ultrasound and the doctor noticed two sacks. “Jesse was losing his mind,” she says. Farago and Sullivan announced their pregnancy on Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, 2024, a conscious choice on both their parts.
The hate was the main reason Farago and Sullivan haven’t publicly discussed whose eggs they used in their pregnancy. “Jesse definitely gets like, ‘Oh, who’s the real dad? You’re not the dad. Your child needs to have a real father,’” Farago says. “People say stuff like that without realizing that gay parents exist, male gay parents exist, female gay parents exist, nonbinary parents exist. People fail to realize this whole group of society exists and can raise beautiful children who are so wanted.
As Farago approaches the halfway mark of her pregnancy, she acknowledges her and Sullivan’s journey hasn’t been perfect. But after her lifelong dream of becoming a mother, she’s finally ready for that future to come true. “It’s still mindblowing that this is happening. We had an ultrasound yesterday and we saw hands, feet, spinal cords, brains, livers, and spleens,” Farago says. “Two babies are going to be here in the fall. This is real.